Wednesday saw President Donald Trump begin his day by heading to the Supreme Court to hear arguments on his administration’s case to end birthright citizenship, a right that has been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution for more than a century and going back to after the Civil War.
But if Trump thought that the fact that he nominated three justices would seal the deal for him, he was mistaken. All three — Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch —seemed to utterly dismiss and scoff at Solicitor General John Sauer’s responses to their questions.
